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A Year in the Life

A Year in the Life

I guess this makes me a cancer survivor now?  Shouldn’t that come with a medal or a cape or some sort of frame-worthy certificate, at the very least? In case that’s too oblique, the PET scan results were good and there is no indication of cancer although...

Act 2

It’s been awhile since I have posted.  There have been reasons both good and bad for that.  Good in that there was nothing particularly noteworthy to talk about other than my ongoing, thrice-daily cage match with food in which I tried to find something to eat that...

August 17th: On This Day in History

1786: Davy Crocket is born 1807: The first commercial steamboat sailed in New York 1893: Mae West is born 1907: Pike’s Place Market opens in Seattle 1915: A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas 1943: Robert De Niro is born 1953: The first meeting of Narcotic’s...

Asterisk II: Revenge of the Asterisk

The short version: it’s most likely stage 1B but there is some activity in the lymph nodes near the tumor that while not specifically cancerous are enough to put an asterisk on the 1B. If you haven’t read the post about the different stages of esophageal cancer, you...